Radu Popescu

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Silhouettes of tiny plants growing on top of a roof, photographed against a white building whose windows are out of focus.

Thrive even where you don’t expect it

Ecublens, 2025

Der Bundesrat will, dass die Schweiz für Unternehmen attraktiv bleibt. Er wird dieses Ziel auch bei der vorliegenden Verordnungsrevision berücksichtigen. Die VÜPF-Revision führt keine neuen Pflichten ein. Denn diese gelten für Anbieterinnen wie Proton bereits seit der BÜPF-Revision 2018. Die vom Parlament gutgeheissene Gesetzesrevision wurde aus praktischen Gründen bisher nicht umgesetzt. Mit der Revision der entsprechenden Verordnung VÜPF werden nun die Ausführungsbestimmungen geschaffen. Die Anbieterinnen-Kategorien werden klarer definiert und die Pflichten je nach Kategorie präzisiert. Die betroffenen Anbieterinnen werden technische Anpassungen vornehmen und entsprechende Investitionen tätigen müssen. Die neuen Pflichten gelten aber in vollem Umfang nur für Anbieterinnen mit grosser wirtschaftlicher Bedeutung oder Reichweite – konkret ab 100 Millionen Franken Umsatz oder 1 Million Nutzenden, wie im BÜPF vorgesehen. Die Ende-zu-Ende-Verschlüsselung wird nicht verboten. Im Gegensatz zu anderen Ländern gibt es in der Schweiz keine Pläne, die Ende-zu-Ende-Verschlüsselung anzutasten. Nur eine zusätzlich angebrachte Transportverschlüsselung muss entfernt werden. Dies nur allerdings dann, wenn eine richterliche Genehmigung im Rahmen eines Strafverfahrens bei Verdacht auf ein schweres Verbrechen vorliegt. Der Bundesrat kann Ihnen versichern: Nur wenige Unternehmen müssen künftig volle Pflichten wahrnehmen. Und eine sichere Kommunikation bleibt weiterhin möglich – aber Dienste wie Proton können von Kriminellen nicht mehr dazu missbraucht werden, bei schweren Verbrechen anonym zu bleiben.

Die Antwort des Bundesrats auf die Anfrage aus dem Parlament fiel ernüchternd aus. Bundesrat Beat Jans betrieb dabei ein geschicktes und irreführendes Spiel.

Indem er das Schlimmste einfach gar nicht erwähnte. Die Identifikationspflicht für IT-KMU (Cloud, Mail)

#vüpf

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The Guardian's new Secure Messaging service for whistleblowers wanting to contact journalists was developed in collaboration with security reseachers at Cambridge University.

From today, @theguardian.com's new Secure Messaging system will generate dummy messages as 'air cover' for real messages sent by whistleblowers. This is to stop adversaries seeing that they're contacting journalists. The new system builds on security research carried out here: shorturl.at/Et0Rf

Blowing the whistle on wrongdoing has always taken bravery. Secure Messaging is an important new tool that will make it easier for people to share confidential information and tips with journalists at the Guardian. theguardian.com/securemessaging_launch

Many broken panes of glass placed on a semicircle stand, like bleachers, in a garden. Looks like an outdoor / roman theatre.

Theatre of broken glass, Lausanne, May 2025

Great photo. Feels very Brassaï!

Last light of the day coming in under an overpass, onto a concrete pavement, illuminating three concrete bollards.

A westward view, during the last light of the day, of a concrete overpass overlooking a street, going towards the horizon, concrete buildings in the distance.

Last touch of light
Ecublens
April 2025

zuck wearing a shirt that says "aut zuck aut nihil"

jay graber, bluesky ceo, wearing a shirt that says "mundus sine caesaribus"

Concrete jungle: the brutalist buildings of northern England – in pictures
A new book captures the most aspirational and enlightened architecture of the north’s postwar years – featuring competitive church building and an endless supply of reinforced concrete
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Coney Island, 1971 Benjamin Swett's photographic memories

This week, a guest essay by photographer @benjaminswett.bsky.social from his new book, "The Picture Not Taken: On Life and Photography." Enjoy! @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social

The 0.7 update for 65x24.app is coming later this week, and it's bringing support for RAW capture, TIFF as a save format, and more.

The price for the one-time full feature unlock will also go up a bit, so if you haven't bought it already now's a great time :)

Apple removes advanced data protection tool in face of UK government request Apple says removal of tool after government asked for right to see data will make iCloud users more vulnerable

Apple withdraws end-to-end encryption in the UK, just as we had feared 😢
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
There's a petition but I doubt it will make any difference
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ke...

The fact that most photographers in my sphere are only on Instagram keeps me from deleting my account. On the other hand, I don’t feel the flow of information is any good. I miss updates from the accounts I care about because there is so much noise and rubbish content to wade through.

Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’

They’re looting NOAA now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan,'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'

NOAA's satellite, ship,land station, airplane data are vital to everyday weather forecasting; but they also record the story of global warming, and no govt or party should control them.

A black-and-white photo of a stop sign framed against a building across the street which should read "Hoosier" but is missing an "o" and reads "hosier."

Olympus Pen D1.5 (an Olympus Pen D2 I grafted the meter and finder assembly from a Pen D onto)

#HalfFrame #BelieveInFilm

PERIMETRE, au Château de Nyon Voir l’article pour en savoir plus.

Here's a link directly to the exposition page: focale.ch/exposition/p...

A grid of photos with 6 columns and 15 lines. Over a period of three months, I took the same short walk multiple times, all within 500m of my home. I chose six points during the walk which I photographed from the same position every time. The resulting grid contains 15 repetitions of the walk, one per line. Within each line, the photos are shown in chronological order, and each line was taken after the previous one.

I made the "Ritual Observations" project in the second half of 2024 for the Focale Association Members' Workshop. On Saturday there was the opening of the group expo at the Chateau de Nyon. If you are in the area, you can still visit the expo until Sunday, Jan 19th.

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I’ve used Fastmail for a long time without issues, but a few years ago I moved to Apple iCloud Mail with my own domain name, as I was already paying for iCloud+. Both have been very reliable. I think E2EE works better for storage than for mail, where you need to interact with unencrypted peers.

A little birdie is sitting by itself in front of the entry to a building (it’s a beautiful modernist church in Paris’s 12th arrondissement). There are brick walls to the sides and two thin concrete columns dividing the picture in three equal vertical slices. The birdie is slightly to the left of the left column, positioned as per the rule of thirds.

Advent of Photography Day 14 - The Bouncer

A flock of dark feathered birds flying close to the restless surface of a lake on a very cold and cloudy day.

Advent of Photography Day 13 - Procession

Advent of Photography Day 12- Your face

Advent of Photography Day 11 - Euqipmylo

Advent of Photography Day 10 - Something for Everyone

Advent of Photography Day 9 - #Rembrandt

Advent of Photography Day 8 - Yield

Advent of Photography Day 7 - Hanging On

Advent of Photography Day 6 - Yellow

Advent of Photography Day 5 - Le bonheur suisse